# Post ts_111013205312819434 - Post ID: `ts_111013205312819434` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-09-05T15:18:03.018Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111013205312819434 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111013205312819434/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_111013205312819434.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > He was put up by Democrat Senators in Delaware under Blue Slip! https://thegreggjarrett.com/in-biden-probe-special-counsel-david-weiss-makes-the-cowardly-lion-look-heroic/ ## Engagement - Likes: 5,159 - Reposts: 1,629 - Replies: 113 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.399Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-24T08:18:24.727Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary A routine delegitimization post targeting Special Counsel David Weiss in the Hunter Biden investigation. The post deploys a real but misleadingly characterized procedural mechanism (Blue Slip) to reframe a Trump-era appointee as a Democratic instrument — establishing preemptive grounds to reject unfavorable investigative outcomes. Operating within Trump's September 2023 counter-narrative campaign running parallel to his own indictments, this post exemplifies the whataboutism architecture: sustained amplification of Biden family legal exposure functions as political and psychological deflection from Trump's own legal jeopardy. Stylistically consistent with authentic Trump voice despite mid-morning timing. Psychological state is grandiose rather than victimized: Trump casts himself as the knowing observer who sees institutional corruption others miss. Defense mechanisms are primarily projection (accusing Weiss of partisan capture while engaged in systematic delegitimization) and rationalization (using real procedural facts to support a conclusion they don't support). Cognitive status shows no acute markers; low complexity is genre-appropriate for link-amplifying posts. Danger level is none — no violent imagery, no target identification for extra-legal action. The systemic risk is diffuse: sustained delegitimization of prosecutorial institutions erodes public trust in rule of law, but this post is one node in a long-running pattern rather than an acute escalation. ## Analysis: Truth Social Post — September 5, 2023 ### Overview A terse, link-amplifying post attacking the legitimacy of Special Counsel David Weiss in the Hunter Biden investigation. The post consists of a single declarative sentence with a dangling pronoun ("He was put up…") followed by a link to a Gregg Jarrett op-ed. In isolation the content is low-intensity; in context of Trump's September 2023 posting pattern — a sustained counter-narrative campaign running parallel to his own accumulating indictments — it is a routine delegitimization volley. --- ### Authorship Attribution **Timing:** 15:18 UTC converts to approximately 11:18 AM EDT. In early September 2023, Trump was most likely at Bedminster, NJ (his summer residence), making this late morning local time — squarely within business hours, which typically signals aide-written content. However, several stylistic features cut against that inference: - The dangling pronoun "He" has no antecedent within this post — the reader is assumed to already know the referent (Weiss), a characteristically Trumpian assumption of shared audience context - Single punchy declarative + exclamation point = authentic Trump rhythm - No polished formatting, no event announcement structure - The previous posts in the session are all bare link shares, suggesting a "retruthing" / amplification session possibly conducted by Trump himself scrolling through conservative media **Assessment:** Likely authentic Trump, possibly with aide-assisted link sourcing. The incomplete, context-assuming syntax is more consistent with Trump's unmediated voice than a professionally drafted post. Confidence: medium. --- ### Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five) - **Low Agreeableness** (dominant): The post is adversarial by design — its entire function is to impugn Weiss's independence through procedural insinuation. - **Low Conscientiousness** (deliberation facet): No care to define antecedents, explain the Blue Slip process, or provide context. Assumes the audience is already primed. - **Neuroticism (angry hostility facet):** Subdued in this post. The exclamation point signals some indignation, but the post lacks the emotional escalation present in higher-arousal Trump content. - **Extraversion (assertiveness):** Present but muted — the assertiveness is channeled through the Jarrett proxy rather than direct personal attack. --- ### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Dominant motive — Power/Control (Agency):** The post functions to reassert narrative control over a figure (Weiss) who threatens Trump's political interests. By labeling Weiss a Democratic appointment, Trump pre-emptively discredits any prosecutorial outcome unfavorable to himself or favorable to the Bidens. **Schema — Rigged System:** Consistent with Trump's entrenched cognitive schema: all institutional actors are either partisan enemies or captured assets. Weiss, despite being a Trump-era appointee himself, is reframed as a Democratic instrument. The Blue Slip mechanism is used selectively as evidence of corruption rather than understood as routine senatorial courtesy. **Goal — Preemptive Delegitimization:** With the Hunter Biden investigation in a critical phase (Weiss had just been elevated to Special Counsel status), Trump moves to undermine public trust in the process before outcomes are known. --- ### Level 3: Narrative Identity - **Protagonist role:** Exposer-of-corruption; the one who sees through institutional facades that naive citizens accept at face value. - **Contrasting other:** David Weiss (framed as Democratic puppet), implicitly the entire Biden-controlled "deep state" apparatus. - **Narrative sequence:** Contamination — what appears to be an independent investigation is revealed as corrupt from inception. - **Identity claim:** "I alone can identify the rigged machinery." The post enacts a competence claim: Trump knows procedural mechanics (Blue Slip) that others miss, which validates his suspicion of the entire system. - **Mythological resonance:** The Cowardly Lion reference (via Jarrett) maps onto a classic Hero/Exposer vs. Cowardly Institutional Actor structure — the wizard behind the curtain who is revealed as inadequate. --- ### Level 4: Clinical Indicators **Narcissistic dynamics:** - **Trigger:** Institutional — Weiss's Special Counsel appointment threatens the Hunter Biden narrative Trump needs as political counter-programming to his own indictments. - **Type:** Preemptive attack. This post fires before any outcome, establishing the frame that will delegitimize unfavorable results. - **Narcissistic state:** Grandiose — Trump positions himself as the epistemically superior observer of a corrupt system, not as a victim in this specific post (though victimhood framing saturates the broader session). - **Rage:** Absent or very subdued. The exclamation mark is indignant rather than rageful. This is cold strategic framing, not hot reactive output. **Defense mechanisms:** - **Projection (Immature):** Accusing Weiss of partisan capture while Trump himself is engaged in partisan political manipulation of the judicial narrative. The mechanism is classic: the thing Trump most fears being accused of (weaponizing justice for political ends) is attributed to the opponent. - **Rationalization (Neurotic):** A technically accurate procedural fact (Blue Slip non-objection by Delaware Democratic senators) is deployed as logical cover for an ideological conclusion (Weiss is a Democratic instrument) that doesn't follow from the premise. - **Splitting (Immature):** All-or-nothing framing — Weiss is either fully independent or fully captured; the Blue Slip fact is used to assign him entirely to the "bad/corrupt" category. **Paranoid features:** Low-level, chronic. The post assumes conspiratorial intent behind a routine appointment procedure — consistent with an enduring paranoid schema rather than acute paranoid episode. --- ### Cognitive Status No markers of acute cognitive disturbance. The dangling pronoun "He" is consistent with Trump's longstanding pattern of assumed shared context rather than word-finding failure. Sentence is syntactically complete if contextually thin. Vocabulary is simple but appropriate to the punchy declarative register. **Complexity score:** 0.25 (low, consistent with baseline for link-amplifying posts). No deviation from established baseline for this genre of Trump post. --- ### Rhetorical & Propaganda Techniques - **Insinuation:** The Blue Slip framing insinuates Democratic control without making a falsifiable explicit claim. - **Authority laundering:** Rather than making the argument himself, Trump amplifies Jarrett — a Fox News legal analyst — allowing the Cowardly Lion attack to be attributed to a nominally credentialed legal voice. - **False equivalence/whataboutism:** The entire Hunter Biden counter-narrative functions as deflection from Trump's simultaneous legal exposure (Georgia waiver, federal indictments). The posts this day form a coordinated whataboutism cluster. - **Delegitimization by procedure:** Using the Blue Slip mechanism (real but selectively characterized) to impugn investigative legitimacy — a sophisticated variant of institutional delegitimization that requires minimal factual distortion. - **Superlative through proxy:** The Jarrett headline ("makes the Cowardly Lion look heroic") delivers the maximalist attack without Trump's fingerprints on it directly. --- ### Gaslighting & Reality Distortion Low gaslighting intensity in this specific post. The primary distortion is the misleading characterization of Blue Slip as evidence of Democratic selection of Weiss, when in fact Weiss was a Trump appointee whose continuation was not actively opposed (not "put up") by Delaware senators. This is misdirection rather than outright fabrication. --- ### Order and Chaos Dynamics - **Positioning:** Order attacker (attacking the legitimacy of the Biden-era prosecutorial apparatus) + Order restorer (implicit promise that a returned Trump would install genuinely independent justice) - **Grievance:** Institutional — the DOJ/Special Counsel structure is framed as irredeemably corrupted by partisan appointment mechanics - **Hierarchy dynamics:** Status of Weiss is aggressively diminished; Trump's status as knowing observer is elevated --- ### Danger Assessment **Level: None.** This post contains no violent imagery, no dehumanizing language, no target identification for extra-legal action. It is delegitimization rhetoric operating within the norms of partisan political combat. Systemic danger (erosion of institutional trust in prosecutors and courts) is real but diffuse and not attributable to this post in isolation. --- ### Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "He [Weiss] was put up by Democrat Senators in Delaware under Blue Slip" | **Mostly False** | David Weiss was nominated as U.S. Attorney for Delaware by President Trump in 2018 and confirmed with bipartisan support. Delaware's Democratic senators (Coons and Carper) exercised Blue Slip non-objection — standard senatorial courtesy — which is categorically distinct from 'putting him up.' His August 2023 elevation to Special Counsel was an executive branch appointment, not a senatorial one. The Blue Slip mechanism is real; its characterization here inverts the causality. | Overall Veracity: 20% ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 65%) ### Indicators - Dangling pronoun 'He' assumes shared audience context without antecedent — authentic Trump pattern - Single punchy declarative sentence + exclamation point matches Trump's unmediated rhythm - No polished formatting or event-announcement structure typical of aide-written posts - 11:18 AM EDT (business hours) slightly favors aide authorship, but other stylistic features outweigh timing - Session context shows bare link amplification pattern consistent with Trump personally scrolling conservative media ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Preemptive Attack — Comparison (David Weiss Special Counsel appointment (August 2023)) Sentiment: -0.45 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 55% - Antisocial: 25% - Paranoid: 45% - Sadism: 10% **Defense Mechanisms:** - projection (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) - splitting (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 25% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Assumed shared knowledge creates in-group intimacy (we already know who 'He' is) - Authority laundering through Jarrett amplification maintains deniability while delivering maximalist attack ## Danger Assessment **NONE** ### Gaslighting - Mischaracterizes Democratic non-objection to Trump appointee as active Democratic sponsorship — rewrites the institutional history of Weiss's appointment - Implies investigative process is captured before any outcome, seeding preemptive rejection of unfavorable findings ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-24._ > He [Weiss] was put up by Democrat Senators in Delaware under Blue Slip **MOSTLY FALSE** David Weiss was nominated as U.S. Attorney for Delaware by President Trump in 2018 and confirmed with bipartisan support. Delaware's Democratic senators (Coons and Carper) exercised Blue Slip non-objection — standard senatorial courtesy — which is categorically distinct from 'putting him up.' His August 2023 elevation to Special Counsel was an executive branch appointment, not a senatorial one. The Blue Slip mechanism is real; its characterization here inverts the causality. Sources: Senate Judiciary Committee Blue Slip practice; Weiss 2018 Trump nomination record Overall Veracity: 20% ## Tags - delegitimization (90%) - whataboutism (85%) - hunter-biden (90%) - david-weiss (90%) - blue-slip (70%) - preemptive-attack (80%) - counter-narrative (85%) - projection (75%) - authority-laundering (70%) - grandiose-state (60%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Legal Siege Day: 49 Posts Oscillate Between Grandiose Supply-Seeking and Rage-Fueled Projection as Tarrio Gets 22 Years** A heavy posting day of 49 posts, driven by the sentencing of Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio to 22 years for seditious conspiracy and the looming Georgia arraignment the next morning. The late morning featured a rapid-fire dump of over 20 links in under 40 minutes, building a legal defense wall out of borrowed voices and right-wing media clips. The afternoon pivoted to rehabilitating the mugshot as a badge of "street cred," while the evening escalated into direct, angry attacks on the January 6th committee and Jack Smith — with Trump accusing investigators of destroying classified documents, the same type of charge he himself faces. The day ended hotter than it started, with the final posts landing as raw, all-caps fury about political persecution. Full digest for 2023-09-05: https://trump.fm/date/2023-09-05/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, September 5). He was put up by Democrat Senators in Delaware... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111013205312819434 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "He was put up by Democrat Senators in Delaware under Blue..." Truth Social, 5 Sep. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111013205312819434. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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